Pillory
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At that moment, a scene which was passing at the
pillory
caught her wild eye.
More example sentences with word pillory
Moreover, the international community continues to
pillory
China for its arms sales to Sudan, which is believed to have used the weapons in the Darfur genocide.
This cartel is now equally savage in its efforts to enforce optimism, and to
pillory
anyone who disagrees as a traitor or moaner.
The task is neither to
pillory
nor to sanctify political leaders caught in these traps, but somehow to reconcile what they will often see as hopelessly competing demands of moral values and national interests, and to find ways to get them to do more good and less harm.
At one moment she was afraid of not being loved in return, at another the fearful thought of the crime tortured her as though on the morrow she would have to be exposed in the pillory, on the public square of Verrieres, with a placard proclaiming her adultery to the populace.
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